Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming

About

Do you want to be able to demystify AI and recognize hyped claims? Do you worry about the social harms and environmental impact of AI? Do you struggle with how to protect and foster your students’ skills in the age of AI? Do you want to develop your own skills in resisting AI and critical AI literacy? Then this Summer School is the place for you!

Course leader

Dr. Marcela Estrada Suarez, Dr. Olivia Guest, Prof. Iris van Rooij

Target group

Bachelor, Advanced Bachelor, Master, PHD, Postdoc, Professional.

There are no prior study, skills, knowledge or experience requirements to participate in this course. The only requirement is that participants are interested in critical AI literacies and are willing to conduct a group project to resist AI hype

Course aim

1. Gain conceptual clarity and deeper understanding of ‘AI’, its various forms and meanings
2. Understand how the science of human cognition can help resist AI hype
3. Critically uncover pseudoscientific claims about AI
4. Analyse critical intersectional theories (racism, sexism, ableism and more) to analyse social harms such as the exploitation of labor behind AI technologies
5. Critically grasp the relationship between AI technologies, sustainability, and environmental devastation
6. Perform a critical AI literacy project to start ways of resisting AI in a specific context

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